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Joshua B. Fisher @jbfisher.bsky.social · 14d

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Chapman University Rises Nearly 10% in U.S. News & World Report Rankings

Chapman University has once again advanced in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of America’s Best Colleges, climbing 11 spots nationally. The new ranking continues Chapman’s upward trajecto...

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Joshua B. Fisher @jbfisher.bsky.social · 26d

Nice!

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Kali Middleby @kalimiddleby.bsky.social · Sep 4

Featured on the cover of @globalchangebio.bsky.social is a thermal image of Elaeocarpus Grandis taken at @jcuofficial.bsky.social Daintree Rainforest Observatory. In this species we find that populations originating from warmer climates have narrower leaves with higher rates of water loss.

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Charlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · Aug 20

New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

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Joshua B. Fisher @jbfisher.bsky.social · Aug 11

The Gifford Fire is the largest fire thus far this year in California. Captured by ECOSTRESS.

Data visualized by high-school student Krishiv Jaini

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Joshua B. Fisher @jbfisher.bsky.social · Aug 11

Phoenix just hit the hottest Aug day in recorded history. ECOSTRESS saw it a couple days before with temps of 124F/51C at 9.20AM.

Data visualized by high-school student Kaitlin Cho.

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Joshua B. Fisher @jbfisher.bsky.social · Aug 9

Happening now! Largest fire in France in nearly a hundred years. Captured by ECOSTRESS.

Data visualized by high school student Bill Chen.

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Joshua B. Fisher @jbfisher.bsky.social · Aug 9

Compilation of fires burning in Portugal as captured by ECOSTRESS.

This image was a collaboration from multiple high school students piecing together the individual fires.

Bill Chen Kaitlin Cho Krishiv Jaini Taara Reddy Ray Schaffer Lucas Zaninovich

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Joshua B. Fisher @jbfisher.bsky.social · Aug 6

Sending ❤️ to Portugal, half of which is on fire right now. This fire, outside of Serabigões, captured by ECOSTRESS a few days ago.

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Joshua B. Fisher @jbfisher.bsky.social · Aug 4

Interesting volcanic activity happening at Hawai’i, captured by ECOSTRESS. Volcanic activity here seems to have accelerated anomalously since Dec.

Image captured by 16-year-old Shreyas Chatterjee working with me this summer.

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Joshua B. Fisher @jbfisher.bsky.social · Aug 1

Interestingly, some areas of the burn zone had low evaporative stress, and these areas did not burn. These images were compiled by 16-year-old, Justin Reinman, who lost his school in the fire. Justin is working with me on a detailed analysis of the evaporative stress for the fire.

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Joshua B. Fisher @jbfisher.bsky.social · Aug 1

Progression of Evaporative Stress from ECOSTRESS leading up to the Palisades fire in LA earlier this year. Things start off generally alright, then those winds smacked into LA and fast-dried the veg, which fueled the uncontrollable fires.

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Joshua B. Fisher @jbfisher.bsky.social · Jul 30

One of my students, Bill Chen, was looking at the Airport Fire in SoCal from last year using ECOSTRESS. Interesting to see the topographic variability in the temperatures.

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Joshua B. Fisher @jbfisher.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Do We Need Another Green Revolution?

As the global population grows, we’ll have to find ways of feeding the planet without accelerating climate change.

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Joshua B. Fisher @jbfisher.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hydrosat picked up this scorching heatwave sweeping Europe yesterday. Surface temperatures exceeding 67C/150F! It’s great that we can now capture these temps at high resolution globally and with increasing frequency towards daily as we continue to get our constellation online. Stay safe out there!

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Joshua B. Fisher @jbfisher.bsky.social · Jul 1

Another new paper published today using ECOSTRESS again to predict wildfire—this time burn severity—one week before occurrence across New Mexico. This paper also outlines a framework for using machine learning with these data and applications.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Assessment of spatial autocorrelation and scalability in fine-scale wildfire random forest prediction models - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Assessment of spatial autocorrelation and scalability in fine-scale wildfire random forest prediction models

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Joshua B. Fisher @jbfisher.bsky.social · Jun 29

New paper using ECOSTRESS and machine learning that predicted Australia’s black summer fires a week ahead of occurrence, mostly using high resolution water use efficiency and evaporative stress data.

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SpaceNews @spacenewsinc.bsky.social · Jun 5

Hydrosat poised to launch second thermal-infrared satellite

SAN FRANCISCO -- Hydrosat announced plans June 5 to gather thermal-infrared imagery with a second satellite launching later this month on the SpaceX Transporter-14 rideshare. VanZyl-2 has four times the imaging capacity of VanZyl-1,…

Hydrosat poised to launch second thermal-infrared satellite

SAN FRANCISCO -- Hydrosat announced plans June 5 to gather thermal-infrared imagery with a second satellite launching later this month on the SpaceX Transporter-14 rideshare. VanZyl-2 has four times the imaging capacity of VanZyl-1, Hydrosat's first spacecraft launched in August. VanZyl-1 observes 2 million square kilometers daily. “On our VanZyl-2 satellite we are able to image 8 million square kilometers per day,” Pieter Fossel, CEO of Washington-based Hydrosat, told…

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · May 31

Inspired by @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social and @ohdearz.bsky.social, here's what the White House proposed budget cuts to NASA would do to the entirety of the agency's Science Mission Directorate.

Bloodbath is right.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · May 31

"The Great Wave" of carbon dioxide (CO₂) #ClimateChange #ScienceArt

Graphic produced by robbieandrew.github.io

Graph of carbon dioxide designed as the painting of "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai.

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Joshua B. Fisher @jbfisher.bsky.social · May 25

My student, Holland Hatch, graduated today, won the top award for our major, and was selected to give the commencement speech. She’s traveled with me to Costa Rica & New Mexico serving key leadership roles. In short, she’s been amazing. I will miss her and wish her the best.

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Holland Hatch graduation commencement speech at Chapman University 2025

YouTube video by Josh Fisher

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Laynara F. Lugli @laylugli.bsky.social · May 20

Please delight yourselves in the magic of belowground research! wur.yuja.com/V/Video?v=89... Amazing video produced by the team of @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social from Wageningen University